[skeeter]

To Ryan's credit, he told the same group this week that what Republicans need is more "Jack Kemp." And Ryan is so right.

Lets just say Kemp would be a step in the right direction.

[Aetius]

Kemp was a Bush-like liberal on immigration, and a supporter of racial preferences. I’m sure he was never once in his life asked about the unintended and increasingly huge collision between these two positions.

So on those two issues he was worthless, and most elite Republicans have already followed his lead there.